Posted on 12/05/2022 12:58:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
Pele had COVID-19 and a heart rate below normal before being hospitalized last Tuesday, his daughters have confirmed.
The 82-year-old tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 17 and has been treated with medication to control pain and fever, but COVID was one of the initial reasons he was taken to the hospital, sources told ESPN.
"About three weeks ago he got Covid," Kely Nascimento said to Brazilian TV. "He is vaccinated, with all the vaccines, but because of the cancer medication, the chemotherapy, which is fragile, he got a lung infection. That's why he went to the hospital, because of the lung infection.
"It's serious because of his age and because he is being treated for cancer."
Flavia Nascimento said: "At hospital, he is better assisted. But he's not in the ICU, he's in a normal room. So, he's not at risk. As a person with a more delicate health, it is better for him to be in the hospital. It is very unfair to start talking that he is in a terminal state, with palliative treatment. It's not that. Believe us. More than anyone else, we don't want that moment to come. Of course, one day it will happen, but it's not now, you don't need to be in that alarm anticipating a situation that doesn't exist now."
The soccer legend, who is battling colon cancer, was admitted to the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo for a respiratory infection and remains in stable condition, according to a statement released on Saturday.
Before that, he was being treated for metastatic cancer at his home in Guaruja, on the coast of Sao Paulo. During the days before his hospitalization, Pele had respiratory issues and the exams performed on Wednesday determined that he has bronchopneumonia.
Pele's heart rate was also diagnosed with bradyarrhythmia, an abnormality that causes the heart to work at a rhythm below what is considered normal, the sources added.
The Albert Einstein hospital said on Friday that Pele is getting antibiotics to treat an infection at the same time he undergoes chemotherapy against cancer.
On Sunday, the sixth day of Pele's hospitalization, the Albert Einstein Hospital did not release a new statement on his condition.
Pele, had a colon tumor removed in September 2021, helped Brazil win the 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cups and remains the team's all-time leading scorer with 77 goals in 92 matches.
Make sure you get your booster so this doesn’t happen to you....wait, Pele was vaccinated and boosted?
He’s 82 y/o and a cancer survivor...
Get vaxxed, boosted, and boosted again. If you die... you tried. You know?
Isn’t Pele in the high risk group that those who advocate the vaccine is supposed to help? Why didn’t it help prevent this lung infection?
Immune system may be too busy fighting trillions of vaccine-induced spike proteins, as well as those from the virus itself. Too much to handle. Pray for O’Rey.
Hasn’t just about everyone going to a hospital today already had Covid? That’s like saying Bob had Chickenpox before he went to the ICU.
My point exactly. Why didn't the vaccine prevent COVID? This is exactly the type of person it is supposed to save from going to the hospital in the first place.
I got you now. My bad.
No big deal - message forums are not an exact science of communications, FRiend.
As much as anyone he’s responsible for visiting the popularity of satan’s sport on the US. I wish him well regardless
Vaccines are less effective for cancer patients on chemotherapy because their immune system is compromised.
How Chemotherapy Affects the Immune System
Chemotherapy is the cancer treatment most likely to weaken the immune system. Chemotherapy medicines target rapidly dividing cells, which cancer cells are — but so are many of the normal cells in your blood, bone marrow, mouth, intestinal tract, nose, nails, vagina, and hair. So chemotherapy affects them, too. Cancer cells are destroyed by chemotherapy because they can’t repair themselves very well. Your healthy cells typically can repair the damage from chemotherapy once treatment ends. (One notable exception is nerve cells in your hands and/or feet, which can be permanently damaged by certain chemotherapy medications — a condition known as peripheral neuropathy.)
As chemotherapy medicines damage the bone marrow, the marrow is less able to produce enough red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Typically, the greatest impact is on white blood cells. When you don’t have enough white blood cells, your body is more vulnerable to infection.
https://www.breastcancer.org/managing-life/immune-system/cancer-treatments/chemotherapy
My excuse is I just finished a leg workout not long ago, therefore I don’t have adequate blood for my noggin.
The left loves the World Cup because the USA is not great at this sport yet. Once the USA breaks into the final 4 they will complain that the USA is evil once again and try and find some other sport we are not good at. Also, how do they put up with all of the unbridled Nationalism on display at the World Cup?
Vaccinated up to date and heart issues. Hmm..
Apparently, not for much longer. If he had chemo and/or radiation treatments, and he's had the shots, and possibly boosters (article says he's had "all vaccines"), his immune system must be next to zero. We already know that the shots have shown an increase in cancer diagnoses. I believe he'd already been diagnosed with cancer before covid, and the shots came along, but If your immune system is already depleted, then taking the shots will only diminish it more.
My sister was diagnosed with lung cancer in February of 2010, underwent weeks of chemo and radiation. Then went through another 10 radiation treatments of the brain. In September/October of 2010 she was diagnosed with what the doctor's called radiation pneumonia. Her cancer was allegedly in remission after her treatments, but in February of 2011, it came back (which the doctor said would happen, and when it did, it would come back with a vengeance...small squamaus cell cancer), and was put in hospice care on July 1st. She died on her birthday, September 2, 2011. I'm wondering if Pele's infection or "pneumonia" as I have seen it called in other articles, can be connected to the radiation treatments he received, or is still receiving.
In April of 2019, my youngest son, then age 48, was diagnosed with cancerous polyps. They did two resections on him, and took out around 70 lymph nodes. He also went through 6 months of chemo treatments. He got the first two covid shots, but as far as I know, he hasn't gotten any boosters. With the uptick in cancer cases since the shots were administered, and with his obvious lowered immune system because he lost those lymph nodes that do not regenerate, I am as worried about him today as I was back in 2019.
Vax destroyed what was left of his immune system.
In my comment at #16, I'm wondering if his "infection" or "pneumonia" as I've seen it named in other articles, couldn't be the same type of "radiation pneumonia" the doctor's diagnosed my sister with after her lengthy radiation treatments for lung cancer.
I’m sorry to hear about your son.
I wish him, and you, all the best.
Thank you EEGator. He moved back here in May, and had to find all new doctors...family, oncologist, etc. He has an appointment for a new scan in January. Hopefully his condition has remained stable. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.
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